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Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine's Day was an annual event celebrated on 14 February in both the Non-magic and the wizarding worlds. It was the traditional day on which people expressed their love for each other, particularly romantic love, by sending Valentine's cards, presenting flowers, or offering sweets .
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In Anacreon’s Ode XXX, Love Captive, relates how, when captured and bound with flowers by the Muses, Cupid, ‘becoming accustomed to his sweet captivity, preferred servitude to the charms of freedom’, so that even Venus herself was unable to tempt him away from his charming captors.
Cupid is, quite literally, the child of the goddess of love, Venus. In Greek mythology, he is known as Eros, and, depending on the source, was thought to be a primordial god who came into the world either asexually, from an egg, or the son of Aphrodite (Venus’ Hellenistic counterpart).
Apr 24, 2012 · Snape placed the Sword in the lake then cast the Patronus to guide Harry to where the sword was. This gets revealed later in part 2 of Deathly Hallows after Snape dies and Harry is looking into his pensive. It shows that Snape's patronus was a doe just like the one woman he truly loved: Lily Potter.
Apr 17, 2018 · The French nobles and royalty–like Cupid, ignored the problem or cries of the people and chose to dwell in sweet ignorance. This piece was made along with three other mythological paintings but Cupid a Captive contrasts in terms of subject as the other three all contain Venus imagery.
Apr 28, 2019 · Hagrid’s appearance really was the apex of a strange couple of days for Harry and the Dursleys, who had been trying to escape an endless slew of letters inviting Harry to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry – not to mention the fact it was Harry’s birthday.
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Feb 13, 2019 · Traced back to 700 BC, this character of legend was called Eros, Martin explains: the Greek word for desire. In the Archaic period, Eros — the son of Aphrodite, the goddess of love — would play...
